Google Ngram Trends:

Cicero, Tacitus, Sallust, Plutarch, Aristotle and Shakespeare

Author
Affiliation

Chihiro Kariya, PhD

Kanazawa University

Published

Sun, 20, Jul, 2025

Modified

Tue, 5, Aug, 2025

This page was created to test the functionality of the R package ngramr. The ngramr package is very flexible in handling the Google Books Ngram API’s capability of returning multiple words at once, allowing users to display the results of multiple search terms in a single figure.

# Ngram data table
# Phrases:      
# Case-sensitive:   
# Corpuses:     
# Smoothing:        
# Years:        1500-2020

  Year Phrase Frequency Corpus Parent  type
1 1500 Cicero         0     en        NGRAM
2 1501 Cicero         0     en        NGRAM
3 1502 Cicero         0     en        NGRAM
4 1503 Cicero         0     en        NGRAM
5 1504 Cicero         0     en        NGRAM
6 1505 Cicero         0     en        NGRAM
# Ngram data table
# Phrases:      
# Case-sensitive:   
# Corpuses:     
# Smoothing:        
# Years:        1500-2020

  Year  Phrase Frequency Corpus Parent  type
1 1500 Tacitus         0     en        NGRAM
2 1501 Tacitus         0     en        NGRAM
3 1502 Tacitus         0     en        NGRAM
4 1503 Tacitus         0     en        NGRAM
5 1504 Tacitus         0     en        NGRAM
6 1505 Tacitus         0     en        NGRAM
# Ngram data table
# Phrases:      
# Case-sensitive:   
# Corpuses:     
# Smoothing:        
# Years:        1500-2020

  Year  Phrase Frequency Corpus Parent  type
1 1500 Sallust         0     en        NGRAM
2 1501 Sallust         0     en        NGRAM
3 1502 Sallust         0     en        NGRAM
4 1503 Sallust         0     en        NGRAM
5 1504 Sallust         0     en        NGRAM
6 1505 Sallust         0     en        NGRAM
# Ngram data table
# Phrases:      
# Case-sensitive:   
# Corpuses:     
# Smoothing:        
# Years:        1500-2020

  Year   Phrase Frequency Corpus Parent  type
1 1500 Plutarch         0     en        NGRAM
2 1501 Plutarch         0     en        NGRAM
3 1502 Plutarch         0     en        NGRAM
4 1503 Plutarch         0     en        NGRAM
5 1504 Plutarch         0     en        NGRAM
6 1505 Plutarch         0     en        NGRAM
# Ngram data table
# Phrases:      
# Case-sensitive:   
# Corpuses:     
# Smoothing:        
# Years:        1500-2020

  Year    Phrase Frequency Corpus Parent  type
1 1500 Aristotle         0     en        NGRAM
2 1501 Aristotle         0     en        NGRAM
3 1502 Aristotle         0     en        NGRAM
4 1503 Aristotle         0     en        NGRAM
5 1504 Aristotle         0     en        NGRAM
6 1505 Aristotle         0     en        NGRAM
# Ngram data table
# Phrases:      
# Case-sensitive:   
# Corpuses:     
# Smoothing:        
# Years:        1500-2020

  Year      Phrase Frequency Corpus Parent  type
1 1500 Shakespeare         0     en        NGRAM
2 1501 Shakespeare         0     en        NGRAM
3 1502 Shakespeare         0     en        NGRAM
4 1503 Shakespeare         0     en        NGRAM
5 1504 Shakespeare         0     en        NGRAM
6 1505 Shakespeare         0     en        NGRAM